who says an inhale is not High Prayer?
an exhale…a Karmic Cleanse?
feeble ilg reckons
most people have become Sheep – mediocre and incapable of mining spiritual depth from the seeming mundane.
why?
because their Solo Practices and Prayers
have been replaced by…what?
social media? expensive yoga classes led by overly nubile, Prana-clad females? addiction to jobs and money over quality time spent with Loved Ones/family? fancy churches and temples?
Dewa and Amma ( Joy Kilpatrick ) grinding corn in an ancient Mataté…awes(om)e lower back opener…any wonder that our ‘modern civilization’ which has removed itself so far from functional fitness for everyday tasks and nature suffers from so many dis-eases of body, mind, and spirit? it’s no wonder to me, in fact, it’s embarrassing how soft and weak our species has become due to an ever growing addiction to comfort…
late seventies, Yosemite Valley: “Camp Four” or “Climbers Camp” (Officially referred to as, “SunnySide Camp”)…
i’m laying asleep in the back tiny camper shell of Vince II, my little yellow sport pick up, and am literally shook awake by a Bear who evidently smelled something other than the fragrant sweat from my last Big Wall attempt…
I’ve always considered Crow as the left-handed guardian of MahaYogi Santa Claus. I often refer to Crows during this time as Christmas Crows. Each one you see during this time is big Medicine!
You see, Crow knows the unknowable mysteries of creation and is the keeper of all sacred law (‘dharma’ in yoga). There are several species of Crow. Raven is one and…
last night; 3:14am Brother Bear dances into my chicken coop, rips off the roost door and consumes our precious “Hanu” (as in Hanuman) before i run naked into the cold night, wielding a flashlight and barking like a mad dog possessed to drive the bruin back into the night…
wish ilg Go(o)dspeed tomorrow in the DWC Championship Road Race…likely in the rain/wind…will be using all my Apache Trainings (see above pic for precisely what my chi-ldhood Wolf Guru looked like…courtesy of Joy Kilpatrick). It’s a Blessing to race at this level, at this age, after such a Blessed Life…you too! Count Thy Blessings…Mindfulness or else….
This M(om)ent… Dewachen; “Daddy,can you PUHLEEEEZE bring home this Leech for me as a pet?” Daddy; “Seriously?” insert the all-too-predictable moments whereupon the precious Daughter convinces Daddy to bring home a Leech as her pet from a high alpine lake, get it into water from the Animas and put it into the unused fish bowl […]
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